Episode 13: The Puerto Rican “I”, 5 Years After the Hurricane

I spoke with the Whitney Museum of American Art’s DeMartini Family Curator, Marcela Guerrero, about their recent exhibition “no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria.” Coinciding with the 5th anniversary of Hurricane Maria, the multi-generational exhibition brings together artists from the island and the diaspora to explore the overlapping disasters compounded by Puerto Rico’s ongoing colonial conditions.

Image Credit: Installation view of no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art In The Wake Of Hurricane Maria (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 23, 2022-April 23, 2023). From left to right: Edra Soto, GRAFT, 2022; Gamaliel Rodríguez, Collapsed Soul, 2020-21; Gabriella Torres-Ferrer, Untitled (Valora tu mentira americana) (Untitled [Value Your American Lie]), 2018. Photograph by Ron Amstutz. 🌐 https://www.aerogramme.org ➡️ @aerogrammearts 📧 [e-mail]